Re: [HACKERS] Invalid YAML output from EXPLAIN

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I don't think the above would be particularly hard to implement myself,
>> but if it becomes a really big deal, we can certainly punt by simply
>> quoting anything containing an indicator (the special characters above).
>> It will still be 100% valid YAML, just with some excess quoting for the
>> very rare case when a value contains one of the special characters.
>>
>
> Since you're the main advocate of this feature, I think you should
> implement it rather than leaving it to Tom or I.
>

Or anyone else :-)

> The reason why I was initially skeptical of adding a YAML output
> format is that JSON is a subset of YAML. Therefore, the JSON output
> format ought to be perfectly sufficient for anyone using a YAML
> parser.
>

There is some debate on this point, IIRC.

cheers

andrew